Grandma's Best Full-Size Quilt Blocks: Pieces of the Past for Today's Quilter

by Better Homes and Gardens

Book Overview

Provides information to plan and create a quilt with 100-plus vintage styles, easy-to-use full-size quilt block patterns, two different color scheme for each style, and design-enhancing border... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Spiral-bound
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069621265X
• ISBN13: 9780696212659
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Better Homes and Gardens Books
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 11.6" x 11.2"

Customer Reviews

Packed full of inspiration!!

Love that it’s spiral bound, informative, inspirational and beautiful photos!

This book is fantastic!

A very wonderful book. You could probably a lifetime of quilts with all these patterns. Most of them are more traditional. The book I bought was spiral which is even better.

I Loved It

Wonderful spiral bound, similar to a coffee table book. Quilting history sections beginning in the 1800's with plenty of photos. The patterns presented are basically in template form to be traced. I have plenty of quilting how-to books but this one is a stand out and was such a great price.

Loved this quilting book!

This is a wonderful book chock full of gorgeous photos,interesting text and enticing patterns. An excellent buy with a lot of variety.

Wonderful Quilts

I love this book a lot of wondeful pattterens and easy to follow

Rug hookers too

I sometimes quilt. USually I quilt and then try to make a hooked rug to accompany it. THe good thing about this book is it allows you pick and poke at the full-size templates to create your own era or modern day quilt. I find that inspirational rather than just being a drone and copying.Another thing I liked, was understanding how fabrics and fabric colours changed over the years. WHile there isn't much descriptive info on it in the book, it's really highlighted and then brought to life on the pages themselves.All in all, quilters, and hookers who either want to be very traditional or not, should benefit with this book.And personally, I have found the whole B & H series on quiltingsuperb.

One of the best quilt books I own....

Better Homes and Garden books have sure improved since I became disenchanted with them in the 80's. And this is an excellent book no matter if you are a beginner or more accomplished at quilting. It is in an easy to use large spiral book form which makes laying it open as you work on one of the quilts or refer to a procedure for making quilting easier much easier.It is laid out in a decades genre, where 1830-1860, 0n into 1920-1950 and borders are discussed in excellent detail with clear photos and exact size templates you can copy and use. Since I am fond of the Sunbonnet Sue (page 168) quilt my Grandma Katie made for my bed and dolls cradle I wanted to learn how to make one myself. I make quilts but they are self designed appliqué types and I wanted to discover the old quilt arts. Although the crazy quilts shown (page 104) come close to what I do.I personally don't know anyone who wouldn't find this excellent book helpful and being well used. Everytime I start to put the book away I realize that I need it out since I am always doing some type of quilt work....